New guidance for restaurants and cafes to reopen

When restaurants and cafes reopen this month, they should favour the use of terraces and the 'take away' service and should encourage prior scheduling, according to guidance from the Directorate-General for Health (DGS) released on 8 May. In the guidance, the DGS establishes the various measures that food and be...

Attacks on press freedom in Europe threaten to be the new normal

Attacks on press freedom in Europe are in serious danger of becoming the new normal, alert 14 international press freedom groups and journalists' organizations, including the European Federation of Journalists (FEJ), in which the Union of Journalists (SJ ) is affiliated. The Council of Europe's 2020 Annual Rep...

When the coronavirus also infects press freedom worldwide

. Quentin Warlop Obstructions and intimidation. Journalists threatened, sometimes arrested and muzzled media. Wage reductions, loss of income, bonuses or layoffs. On this International Press Freedom Day, the facts are clear: the Covid-19 pandemic is also affecting the press around the world. Journalists are cert...

Worldwide coronavirus cases exceed 2.38 mln, death toll crosses 164,900

(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); NEW YORK: More than 2.38 million people have been reported to be infected by the novel coronavirus globally and 164,918 have died, according to a Reuters tally. Infections have been reported in more than 210 countries and territories since the...

Daughter dies of heart attack during funeral of coronavirus-infected mother

Laura Richards, 32, suffered a heart attack when her mother Julie Murphy, 63, was being buried. A woman passed out and died during her mother's coronavirus victim's funeral. Laura Richards, 32, suffered a heart attack when her mother Julie Murphy, 63, was being buried in England. According to the publicat...

Pollution in Lisbon down 60% due to lockdown.

The pollution levels of Avenida da Liberdade, in Lisbon, had a 60 percent reduction in the last week compared to the same period last year, registering the lowest concentrations of the last seven years, according to one study by the New University. The conclusions of the study, which the Lusa agency had access t...